Shoryavardhaan Gupta

17-year-old builder and developer from Kolkata, India. Kolkata Fork Lead at Bits&Bytes, Youth Partner at 4MQ.org. Ships civic tech, hardware, and AI projects that live in the real world, not just on GitHub.

Projects

Buy4Chai — self-hosted UPI/Razorpay supporter page for Indian developers Stripe locked out of. Open source, MIT license, 16+ GitHub stars.
SarkarSathi — AI co-pilot for municipal accountability in India. India Innovates 2026 Top 1,000 of 26,000+ entries.
Disaster-Resilient LiFi Network — off-grid IR mesh turning solar street lamps into emergency communication nodes. CBSE Regional Science Exhibition 2025–26.
ChemX — physical chemistry reaction simulator controlled from a browser, built on Arduino.
Grounded Planning Research — AI planning research on object commitment in LLM agents, published on Zenodo at age 15.

Writing

Nobody told me to start. That was the point.
Why Indian developers can't get paid online, and how I fixed it
Markets don't get disrupted. They get aged out.
Apple's been playing a different game since 2017
Both groups are losing. Just differently.
Why "needs vs. wants" is the wrong framework

Elsewhere

GitHub
LinkedIn
Instagram
X / Twitter
Medium
Zenodo
ORCID